The "godfathers of deep learning": Hinton, LeCun and Bengio
Who Geoffrey Hinton, Yann LeCun and Yoshua Bengio are, the ideas that won them the 2018 Turing Award, and why the three now disagree sharply about the risks of AI.
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Section I
People & Community
Who's who, companies, interviews, events, careers and communities.
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Google DeepMind: a company profile, from Atari to AlphaFold and Gemini
The history of DeepMind: its 2010 founding in London, the Google acquisition, AlphaGo, AlphaFold and a Nobel Prize, the merger with Google Brain and the Gemini models.
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The major AI conferences explained: NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, CVPR and more
A guide to the top machine learning and AI research conferences, what each focuses on, how peer review works, and why conferences matter more than journals in AI.
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How to get the most out of an AI conference
Practical advice for attending AI research and industry conferences: planning sessions, reading posters, networking, presenting your work and following up afterwards.
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AI job roles explained: from ML engineer to AI product manager
What machine learning engineers, AI engineers, data scientists, research scientists, MLOps engineers and AI product managers actually do, and the skills each role needs.
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How to start a career in AI: a realistic roadmap
A step-by-step roadmap into AI careers: foundations, courses, projects, portfolios, open source, networking and job applications — for students and career changers.
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How to keep up with AI news without drowning
A sustainable system for following AI: choosing a few trusted sources, filtering hype, reading primary sources and building a weekly routine that fits your goals.
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AI podcasts and newsletters worth your time: a curated guide
A curated guide to long-running AI podcasts and newsletters for different audiences — researchers, builders, business readers and beginners — and how to pick yours.
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The best YouTube channels and video courses to learn AI
From 3Blue1Brown's visual neural network series to Andrej Karpathy's Zero to Hero and university lectures: the best free videos for learning AI, by level.
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Essential AI talks and lectures everyone should watch
A curated list of influential AI talks and lectures — on how language models work, the history of deep learning, AI safety and the future of work — and what each teaches.
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AI communities worth joining: online and in person
Where to learn, share and collaborate on AI: Hugging Face, Kaggle, research forums, open-source collectives, Discord and Reddit communities, meetups and affinity groups.
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How to contribute to open-source AI projects
A step-by-step guide to contributing to open-source AI: finding a project, starting with docs and issues, making pull requests, and sharing models or datasets.
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Famous AI competitions that changed the field
From the DARPA Grand Challenge and the Netflix Prize to ImageNet, CASP and the ARC Prize: competitions that accelerated AI progress, and what made them so influential.
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How to compete in Kaggle competitions and AI hackathons
A practical guide to machine learning competitions and hackathons: choosing events, baselines, validation, teamwork, presenting projects and learning from winners.
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